[HLUG] Ubuntu 5.10 could be friendlier to winX upgraders withdialup

[Benjamin Weber]

I don't know if you can find it split up onto multiple cds anywhere (SUSE conveniently provide dvd contents on multiple cds). If not then you can always dump the repository contents on another medium, hard disk, network server etc and point apt at it. The alternative is to split it up manually. If you split up the packages you will probably have to regenerate the repository metadata for each set of packages, I suspect debian/ubuntu has a tool for doing this, (http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/repository-howto/repository-howto looks promising) suse does for their repository formats. If you just want a few packages you could just copy those and install with dpkg manually. 

SUSE is also friendlier to dialup users for updates as it uses binary diffs, so even large updates like the kernel are only very small, and most updates are only a couple of hundred kb. Updating things like the kernel with full packages like in ubuntu over dialup isn't fun.

Benji